OrbitzXT
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System Name | AX-01 |
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Processor | Intel Core i5-2500K @3.7 GHz |
Motherboard | ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 |
Cooling | Zalman 9700 |
Memory | Kingston HyperX T1 Series 8GB DDR3 1600 MHZ |
Video Card(s) | GTX 590 |
Storage | Intel X25-M |
Display(s) | 42" Samsung LED HDTV |
Case | Antec Twelve Hundred |
Audio Device(s) | HT | OMEGA STRIKER 7.1 |
Power Supply | Kingwin 1000W |
Software | Windows 7 64-Bit |
A situation has arisen that my friend needs a motherboard, I was considering buying a new one for myself so I can put hard drives in a RAID 0 array and giving him the one I have now. I'd like to put 3, maybe 4 drives into RAID 0, but I'm not completely sure how many a motherboard will allow in RAID. For example I was looking at this motherboard with an ICH10R southbridge. The pictures show 2 purple color SATA and 6 yellow. Which can be used to setup RAID? If this motherboard can't do more than 2 drives in RAID can someone link me to one that could?
I looked at the manual for this motherboard and it says the following...
...so if it can support up to 6, what are the different colors indicating?
I looked at the manual for this motherboard and it says the following...
Storage Interface South Bridge:
- 6 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATA2_0, SATA2_1, SATA2_2, SATA2_3,
SATA2_4, SATA2_5) supporting up to 6 SATA 3Gb/s devices
- Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 101
GIGABYTE SATA2 chip:
- 1 x IDE connector supporting ATA-133/100/66/33 and up to 2 IDE devices
- 2 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (GSATA2_0, GSATA2_1) supporting up to
2 SATA 3Gb/s devices
- Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD
...so if it can support up to 6, what are the different colors indicating?